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By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011 - 8:25 am
A bitter dispute between former Governor David Paterson and Greene County over whether or not the county had the authority to appoint an interim treasurer -- which had resulted in the withholding of millions of dollars in state funds to the county -- is... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 11:32 am
Joe Martens: Photo via the Adirondack Park AgencyYesterday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that his choice for the head of the embattled New York Department of Environmental Conservation, an agency that has burned through two chiefs in three months, will... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 9:55 am
The Daily Mail reports that a house on Mountain Avenue has been destroyed by fire -- thankfully, with no injuries, either human or animal.
Residents Joseph and Adele Spinelli could not be located after emergency personnel arrived on the scene, and there... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011 - 8:34 am
The Freeman reports that the Woodstock Town Board has renewed a policy that empowers the Board to discourage general municipal mayhem, in order to "keep town meetings from becoming debate sessions among members of the audience and extending past midnight... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 - 4:26 pm
Lisa Ramirez, in "Exit Cuckoo: Nanny in Motherland." Photo by via the Exit Cuckoo website.
New York City actor and playwright Lisa Ramirez, who wrote and starred in a well-reviewed one-woman show about nannies in 2009, is making the Latina female... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 - 2:09 pm
Not a minute too soon: Soggy, soggy Delhi is joining nine other communities across the country in a pilot project to map flooding data.
Locally, the study is being sponsored by the USGS and the Delaware County Soil and Water Conservation District. The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 - 2:14 pm
Rally to Save Belleayre Mountain from Fred Margulies on Vimeo.
Chanting "We are Belleayre, We are Belleayre," 150 people gathered before a podium at Belleayre Mountain on Friday to protest layoffs at the state-run ski resort ordered by the New York... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 - 11:52 am
Hate Crime in NYS 2009 Annual Report:
Last week, we reported that a gay artist in the sleepy hamlet of Pine Hill was possibly the victim of a hate crime when his house was torched on Thanksgiving. If it turns out that the arson was attacking... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 - 10:15 am
According to a press release from the State Police, the sale of a stolen handgun in Saugerties on New Year's Day was interrupted when the gun went off.
Reportedly, a bullet struck one man, who ended up at Columbia Memorial Hospital with a non-life... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011 - 10:18 am
"Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 - 4:49 pm
George HolbertNineteen-year-old George T. Holbert was arrested in Sidney on Tuesday after he allegedly rammed his snowmobile into the back of someone else's vehicle during an argument. The State Police, who reported the incident today, characterized the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 - 3:37 pm
In light of the deep staffing cuts planned for Belleayre Mountain, the idea of an authority to manage the ski center -- much like the one that governs Whiteface and Gore Mountain, New York's other state-run ski centers -- is once again getting some... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 4:10 pm
Sidney Center has water contamination problems. And Dawn Rivers Baker, former candidate for supervisor of Sidney, is angry about it.
Did you know that a sizable chunk of the population of the Town of Sidney does not have access to clean drinking water?... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 10:37 am
The town of Ellenville in Ulster County. Photo by Flickr user Karen Blumberg.
Earlier this month, the Daily Yonder, the blog about rural issues, published an interview with three experts on small towns: Bart Finzel, Jane Leonard, and Dave Engstrom. While... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 9:36 am
An early morning fire at a house in Neversink turned into a pot bust, the State Police report.
When emergency responders arrived at the home around 3am on Wednesday morning, they allegedly found six scorched marijuana plants and five pounds of processed... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 - 1:20 pm
Pine Hill resident Richard Treitner. Contributed photo.
Richard Treitner, an artist, poet, and self-described shaman who lives in the small hamlet of Pine Hill on the western edge of Ulster County, came home from Thanksgiving this year to find that his... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 - 10:08 am
Paul Smart at WGXC has written a tribute to Willow poet Janine Pommy Vega, who died last Thursday.
I met Vega just once, almost thirty years ago, when I was a third grader in Mrs. Wells' class at Phoenicia Elementary School. She visited our class to do a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 - 3:52 pm
Back in October, Mike Bemis was relieved of his job leading Ulster County's Resource Recovery Agency without much of an official explanation. (Unofficially, thanks to an evesdropping Daily Freeman reporter, a few of the complaints made against Bemis came... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 - 10:53 am
If you're sitting on a glorious snowscape up in the hills, and are willing to rent it out in February, you might want to talk to Vicart Entertainment. From the Hudson Valley Film Commission:
The film which features 4 actors getting ready for a mountain... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 - 10:16 am
Three cheers for Hazel Akerley, a cafeteria monitor who works at Liberty Middle School. In her time working at the school, she has saved two students from choking on their food by performing well-timed Heimlich maneuvers, according to a news brief in the... Read more
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